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A Managerial Perspective on the Porter Hypothesis -The Case of CO2 Emissions
Arjaliès, Diane-Laure; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - HAL - 2010
Over the past decade, the debate on climate change has dramatically shifted. The strong evidence presented by the scientific community through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process established by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Meteorological...
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Footwear Sectoral Analysis : Nepal
World Bank Group - 2018
Nepal's footwear industry is small but growing, and has been identified as a priority export sector by the government.Nepal's footwear industry is a relatively small export industry, accounting for just 1.5 percent of the country's total exports in 2017. Similar to other light manufacturing...
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Incentivizing Sustainable Private Sector Investment in Timber Plantations in Myanmar : Policy Options to Encourage Socially and Environmentally Responsible Investment
World Bank Group - 2020
Forestry has traditionally been one of Myanmar's most important economic sectors, generating more in export earnings in the period 2010-2018. It is estimated that the country will have lost 12 million ha of forest between 1990 and 2020 - the third largest absolute forest loss of all countries...
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The World Bank's Early Support to Addressing Coronavirus (COVID-19) Health and Social Response : An Early-Stage Evaluation
World Bank Group - 2022
This evaluation assesses the quality of the World Bank's early response to the COVID-19 crisis and the initial steps toward recovery, focusing on the health and social response. It concentrates on the relief stage and support to restructure systems in the first 15 months of the pandemic...
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Institutional Arrangements for Financial Consumer Protection
World Bank Group - 2015
There is growing evidence that financially inclusive countries are more financially stable and exhibit better micro- and macro-economic conditions conducive to financial well-being of individual consumers. In order to produce significant economic and societal benefits, financial inclusion needs...
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Country Processes and Institutional Arrangements for Article 6 Transactions
World Bank Group - 2021
Unlike the Kyoto protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM), Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement is designed to allow for international cooperation in carbon markets through decentralized governance. Under this article, bilateral or plurilateral cooperation between participating parties can be...
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Romania Regional Hospital Analysis Study : Regional Referral Networks in Romania
World Bank Group - 2018
Romania lags behind other European Union (EU) countries in many health outcomes. The government of Romania plans to build three new regional hospitals in the North-West (NW), North-East (NE), and South-West (SW) regions. These are envisaged to be tertiary referral hospitals providing highly...
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Networked Carbon Markets : Mitigation Action Assessment Protocol
World Bank Group - 2016
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CSR firm profiles and innovation: An empirical exploration with survey data
Bocquet, Rachel; Bas, Christian Le; Mothe, Caroline; … - HAL - 2011
concerned. Cluster 1 firms adopted CSR practices to achieve economic goals without resorting to the formalization of these … practices. In contrast, cluster 2 firms "learn CSR by doing" and by establishing CSR procedures and tools. Then  we match … different types of innovation (product, process, organizational). In comparison with the firms which don't adopt CSR, firms in Cluster …
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In search of an alternative to shareholder value maximization
Giraud, Gaël; Renouard, Cécile - HAL - 2011
This paper argues that mainstream economic the- ory, far from providing an indisputable plea in favor of shareholder value-maximization, o ers striking arguments showing quite the opposite: pro t maximization cannot be a legitimate prioritar- ian goal for private rms. This opens the door for a...
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